In Peru, as we have stated, it is "charqui;" but mutton cured in this way is distinguished by the name "chalona.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

Then Guapo skinned him, and cut him into strips, and dried him into "charqui," and carried him on board the raft.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

The verb "jerk" is corrupted from the Chilian word, charqui, meaning sun-dried meat; but it is not easy to explain how the Chilian word got into the Northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6] Reference

Chilian word charqui, meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

"charqui;" but mutton cured in this way is distinguished by the name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

They rarely eat meat once a week, and never oftener, and then only the hard dry charqui.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

I have here about three hundred pounds of charqui.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Pampas] Reference

Llama meat was the first jerky; or charqui, as the Inca called it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Jerked beef came from the Spanish charqui by the law of Hobson-Jobson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms] Reference

"And we shall neither have charqui, nor hard eggs, nor fillets of ostrich?".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of the Castaways] Reference

"Al-Kadíd" = jerked (charqui = chaire cuite) meat-flesh smoked, or (mostly) sun-dried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

This preparation, called 'charqui,' was the only animal food of the lower classes in Peru.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red True Story Book] Reference

Maize and charqui were packed into knapsacks for the march, and the pirates rowed ashore to open the campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

A few maize cobs and a strip or two of charqui was all the travelling store in the scrips his pilgrims carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

Sometimes it was merely cut in strips, roughly rubbed with brine, and hung in the sun to dry into charqui, or jerked beef.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

When the beeves were slaughtered, their meat was dried into charqui, or "boucanned," over a slow fire, into which the hide was thrown.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

In large establishments it is usual to kill several animals at once, so as to lay in sufficient store of charqui to last for some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Pampas] Reference

Simply because Guapo had a supper of a very different kind, which he carried in his pouch, and which he liked much better than the charqui stew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

They dared not light a fire, but chewed some of the tough charqui, and watched the distant cleft in the hill which led to the ardently wished-for goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Pampas] Reference

Leaving my party to complete the process of drying and packing the charqui, I started with my two black companions to examine the country to the north-west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference

A very different kind, which he carried in his pouch, and which he liked much better than the charqui stew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

That with what is left of the charqui -- we shall not fast to-night. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference

"charqui," and carried him on board the raft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

Mexico name it "tasajo," while those of Peru style it "charqui.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

(Nahuatl) (Nahuatl) charqui, charquy, jerky quetzal, quetzal, quesol.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference